Birthday Cards and a Thank You Card

Hello and happy Wednesday.  A big thanks to everyone who was so kind to wish me a happy birthday yesterday.  I was wondering how so many people knew about it, until I read Kim's blog post here....and it all became clear.  What a sweet friend my Kim is.

Perhaps it is old age, but I find myself in need of belated birthday cards a bit too often.  Here is one I made so I will be ready the next time I forget someone's birthday.  "Prepare to Forget"--that would be a good motto.

I used the sketch at Sweet Sunday Sketches #267.  I water colored my flower with Distress Abandoned Coral, so I will be entering the Don't Abandon Coral challenge at Simon Says Monday, and I used two positively ancient stamp sets--PTI Friends Till the End and Verve Big Wish, so I will also enter this card at Retro Rubber #13 Anything Goes.  Retro Rubber is a new challenge for me, and was very excited to discover it, as it is all about encouraging you to use your older stamps.

Next up is a thank you card I made using my latest love--the iris in PTI Friendly Flowers.  Warning--you are going to see this flower a lot this week.  Today, my Iris appears on a smaller card (3.5 x 5), one layer with lots of stickles.  

I stamped my Iris in Distress Abandoned Coral and then Pure Poppy.I will be entering this card at One Layer Simplicity #16 and the Don't Abandon Coral challenge at Simon Says Monday,

I can't seem to stop playing with my newest die--Boxed Up Birthday Greetings from Lil Inker.  In my next two cards, I used this die for some inlaid die cutting.

I used Inktense pencils to color a rainbow on a scrap of white card stock and then used a water brush to blend all the colors together.  I cut my card front as well as that rainbow piece with the Boxed Up Birthday Greetings, and put the white piece back into the card front.  I inlaid all the negative pieces back onto the card front to surround the white die cut.  I am entering this card at Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge where the theme is die cuts/punches and Simon Says Wednesday Let's Get Sentimental.

And, finally, one more take with the same die and inlaid die cut technique, this time using the colors at ColourQ #290.

I am also entering this card at Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge where the theme is die cuts/punches, the Don't Abandon Coral challenge at Simon Says Monday, and and Simon Says Wednesday Let's Get Sentimental.

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